October 30, 1847

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Features

The Angel of Patience

New Line

Thompson's Life Boat

Troy and Montreal Line

Telegraphs

Crampton's Narrow Guage Engine

Atmospheric Railway

Our Distant Friends

Hudson River Railroad

Guyon's Water Wheel

Buffalo and Milwaukie Line

Railroad Receipts

Curious Marriage Contract

Cotton in India

New Material for Paper

He'll Do

Mining in Australia

Cotton in Turkey

A Glorious Death

Order of Agriculture

Minerals in Canada

Street Advertising in France

Chamber's Miscellany

American Champagne

Fair of the American Institute

The Mines of Nova Scotia

The Iron Manufacture of France

Uncle Sam's Farm

The Mechanics Are Coming

The Laziest Man

Penal Settlement

Antiquities of Ireland

Advantages of Law

New Sheet Metal for Sheathing

The Modern Ruins of the Modern Athens

A Curious Spring

A French Clergyman's Opinion of Dancing

The Mormons

The Coal Business at Pictou

Hyde's Blind Fastener

We Want a Machine for Eating

New Grain Weigher

Golden Daguerreotype

Chamberlin's Draughting Board

New Candle Machine

Improvement in Gun Cotton

Steam Improvement

Improved Plough

Greek Fire

File Machine

New Printing Press

Improvement in Steam Engines

Important Discovery

Curious Pump

Rotary Pump

Wool Burring Machines

Chemical Effects on Lightning

Co-Operative Associations

New Steamboat

Faneuil Hall Boston

Scientific American--Bound Volumes

A Veteran Flag

Valuable Estate

Mechanic's Fair

Electrotype and Electro-Gliding

Spindles

The Ticklishness of Credit

Economical Saw Mill

Smithson

Philadelphla Correspondence

The King of Prussia's Economy

Potato Rot

Water

The Burning Wells of Kenawha

Vision of Birds

Honor to Whom Honor is Due

A Glance at the Heavens

Aerial Navigation

A Spotted Negro

No Proof of the Present Existence of a Single Star or Planet

Missouri Lead Mines

The Macedonian

I Shall be a King

Patent Agency

Hartson's Improved Lathe

Portrait of Gen. Taylor--Third Edition

Union Magazine

Scientific American

Rope and Pulley

Power of Enduring Heat

Wonderful Discovery

To Make Pumpkin Butter

Composition of the Brown Venitlan Glass With Gold Spangles

The Universal Joint

Stylographic Engravings

Fractions

Odors.--Musk

Nature and Preparation of Substances for Tinging Glass

Departments

From the Editor

To Correspondents

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